MPH [High Praise!] left this comment about the powers-that-be in Detroit deciding to build a new street car line in the city:

Yeah, Detroit’s problems are all caused by a lack of inflexible, fixed route, public transportation. Spending the money on crime suppression, or removal of abandoned and dilapidated buildings, or just reducing the 6% city income tax, won’t do nearly as much for reviving Detroit as stepping back 100 years and putting street cars back in service. I mean, it isn’t as if street cars were ever really tried anywhere, and then they died out for a good reason, right?

Detroit – getting what it’s been asking for, for over 50 years.